[Pussnboots]

One of my biggest.. 'qualms' with this game is that healing usually gets you killed. I've rage quit over this more than anything.

So, if the healing could be adjusted to stop as soon as the bind is released so that you can fire when you need to instead of dancing around your opponent hoping to God you get lucky enough to have the time to pull out your weapon and shoot.

I would LITERALLY kiss the feet of every Dev and QA of FS if this could change :D

[Mod ObScUrE]

you can heal faster with medic pack and use headphones to hear your enemy's to release the key before it's to late.

works for me at least.

I think the downtime is good to be more careful and forces players more to look or hear around.

The same with weapon reloading time.

[CMM|Rylius]

Yep, always listen and make sure you have enough cover. If still someway manages to get through to you, walljump the hell away and start shooting as soon as you can :P

[Yas]

some of us wait till we hear the person healing before attacking, gives that 2 second advantage. the best is when there are 2 or more people healing each other and you jump in spreading lead and all they can do is wobble and jump around flapping their wings like penguins trying to fly.

dance my pretties.

[|it|Tizz]

This delay is TOTALLY on purpose.
It forces you to watch your back and get cover when you're healing each other (that's why 2 good TS players should never medic each other at the same time : 1 heals, the other covers, and swap).

I strongly advice you to read this : http://dailynade.com...-perfect-medic/

[Mod ObScUrE]

Yas, on 28 May 2010 - 08:50 AM, said:

some of us wait till we hear the person healing before attacking, gives that 2 second advantage. the best is when there are 2 or more people healing each other and you jump in spreading lead and all they can do is wobble and jump around flapping their wings like penguins trying to fly.

dance my pretties.

For that reason players started faking the medic healing what is another nice result out of this.
/bind X ut_itemdrop medkit is helpful that other players can heal you up faster.

[H0i]

The delay is a punishment for healing. This forces you to heal on the right place, on the right time, it requires good thinking if you don't want to get killed.

[<PWC>YAY5637]

what about healing and shooting at once? :D

[mitsubishi]

The delay is short if you hit fire key once.

[Pussnboots]

Well, just thought I would throw it out there. I use my ears more than I do my eyes in game (as evident by my YouTube vids). It becomes a problem playing on full servers. With fewer people it's far easier to gauge distance, location and who's who. However, if your playing on a full server it's nearly impossible sometimes to judge these things.

Myself, well, I typically end up bleeding to death to get the last kill or pay the price without getting the kill(s). Healing is often times deadly in large bouts. I do use a med-kit with me all the time because of this very reason. It's faster. Nonetheless, still quite deadly.

Anywho, I think that's all I can say about it :D

@ mitsubishi - The delay is not made up for with the SR-8. It doesn't seem shorter at all. The other weapons, yes. Not SR-8 :( (Which I use frequently)

Perhaps it's best this argument doesn't go my way, after all, kissing all those feet I'm sure could lead up to some crazy rash and stinky breath.

This post has been edited by Pussnboots: 28 May 2010 - 05:26 PM